Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard run--Won by Porter (T); second, tie for second between W. Goldberg (H), and Root (NE). Time--1 min...
Pointing out that the matter of degree requirements was one for "a teacher's judgement," the committee nevertheless called attention to the difficulty, and possible injustice, of requiring otherwise able students tot have had as much as three years of Latin or four of mathematics--often considered the bare min- imum...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) gives Hollywood its cleanest fall, to date, in its wrestle with postwar problems. It is a big (2 hr. 45 min.), shiny, star-studded show that should appeal to practically anyone who can be lured inside a movie theater. Producer Goldwyn, cheerfully shooting the works on as glittery a collection of scripting, directing, acting and technical talents as $3 million could buy, has bought himself a sure-fire hit-with a little to spare. Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire...
...time of the knockout, 2 min. 9 sec. of the first round, was a near record for Louis. In 1938 it took Joe just 2 min. 4 sec. to polish off Max Schmeling, who had made the mistake of knocking out Louis in their previous meeting...
Best shot in this disturbing but laugh-loaded short (18 min.) film: Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton gloomily winding up a deadpan lecture to an anthropology class: "Mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction. . . . Any questions...